Category: stepson

I Love 4th of July!

4th-of-July-2-e1530630955181I’m making a habit of abandoning my blog for weeks at a time!  The 4th of July is my second favorite holiday (after Halloween), and I thoroughly enjoyed our long weekend.  I didn’t look at my phone or a computer screen the past four days unless I absolutely had to.

I originally planned to get a lot done over the weekend, but quite frankly, it was nice just hanging out and having fun with my husband and my stepson.  So I focused on that instead, and everything else will get done when I get to it.

It was hard coming back to work this morning, but a co-worker surprised me with several pots of plants from her yard.  She knows I love gardening, so when her plants needed thinned out, she potted them up for me.  I keep looking at them, picturing where to place them in our yard.  If it’s not raining when I get home, I will skip a formal workout and go dig in the dirt and get these flowers planted instead.

Just wanted to check in and say hello!  I’m going to go catch up on as many blogs as I can, and I will post more later.  Hopefully sooner than a week from now!

Rest Day

It’s hard for me to take rest days.  I know how easy it is for me fall off the wagon, and one rest day could quickly turn into two days, three days, then weeks.  I panic at the idea of not working out and opening up the possibility of losing my momentum.  But after the dismal run on Monday, I felt like my poor body was frantically trying to tell me something, so I gave it a much-needed rest on Tuesday.

Instead of working out, I went out to dinner with my husband and my stepson.  (I stuck to unsweet tea and a chicken salad.  Rest day didn’t mean pig-out day!) Both of them are certified smart-asses, and they were raring to go that night.  I was laughing so hard at the two of them that I was sure we would be asked to leave.  It was a lot of fun.

Last night, the break was over, and I did an Insanity workout.  I was sweaty and wiped out afterward, but I added on a 10 minute ab workout for good measure.  Today my shoulders are sore, which surprised me, but then I remembered the move with push-ups that move side to side.  Yeah, they are just as much fun as they sound (withering sarcasm from someone who despises push-ups).

Tonight I will hit the weights, then tomorrow will be an early morning workout, since we are heading to my younger stepson’s football game tomorrow night!  I will be disappointed when the season is over.  I really enjoy watching him play.

I am kicking around the idea of doing an Insanity workout tomorrow morning…I’m not sure I have the energy for all that mess so early in the morning!  Then again, maybe pushing myself through a crazy tough workout before I’m completely awake is actually quite clever 🙂

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What might really happen instead 🙂

“Only” Five Miles

I headed out for a distance run last night, and in hindsight, I don’t know what I was thinking.  I laced up my shoes, plugged in my headphones, and took off, apparently completely forgetting several crucial things: sleep deprivation from a freaking hurricane; hours of manual labor each day, cleaning up the yard; stress jacked up through the roof; and sporadic and not-the-healthiest eating because the power had been out for three days.

Not surprisingly, my run started out sluggish.  Not to worry!  I’ll catch my second wind once I get into a groove.  Okay, maybe not. Ummm, know what, maybe I’d rather curl up under that tree over there and take a snooze…

I forced myself to keep going, and my body rebelled.  You know when you blow up a balloon and pinch the ends closed, then suddenly let go, and all the air whooshes out of the balloon with that funny *pfffffft* sound and quickly deflates?  Well, last night I was that balloon.  All of the energy drained out of me in a rush (thankfully without the sound effects, though, which would have been embarrassing).  The last two weeks, from illness to a hurricane, caught up with me and said, “Lady, just stop this nonsense and sit the hell down.”

I fought it at first and pushed out one more horrible, torturous mile, then slapped some sense into myself.  What was I doing?  What was the point to forcing myself to run when my body said it couldn’t?  I was just teaching myself to hate running and likely bringing on an injury.

I finally stopped, cooled down, stretched, and went home.  I was disappointed, because I had wanted to cover at least 9 miles.  My husband asked how I did, and I grumbled “Five miles.”  He smiled in confusion, not sure why I was upset, and said “You did great.”  I told him I had wanted 9 miles, and he replied simply, “You did five miles.”

Yes, I did.  I knew I was being silly.  When I first started running again, five miles was unfathomable.   And it’s not like I will never run those 9 miles.  Just not right now.

I took a shower, packed my lunch for the next day, grabbed a blanket, and snuggled up next to my husband to relax, rest, and just enjoy being with him and my stepson for the rest of the evening.  It was definitely what I needed, and the miles will be waiting for me, when I’m ready.

Time to Beast

c7e13d4e4175bd10836cf53c5472f5aeI prefer to work out in the evenings, right after work.  (Well, if I am 100% honest, I prefer to not work out at all, but I was trying to sound all exercise-positive here, rah rah!)  But sometimes, life gets in the way, and working out after work is impossible.

This evening, for example, we will be heading out right away for my stepson’s football game.  It’s an hour drive each way to Hickville (a/k/a the Inbred Capital of the World), so we won’t be home until much too late to even think of exercise.

Oh well, so sad.  Just skip the workout, right?

That’s what I used to do.  And, admittedly, it’s what I was very much tempted to do today.  Instead, I set the alarm for an hour earlier than usual (ouch).  I got up and worked out this morning so it’s all done for the day, checked off, complete!  Boo-yah!

I can’t say I enjoy morning workouts, or getting up so early, but I am proud that I did it, and happy that my workout is done for the day.  Hopefully it all pays off at weigh-in tomorrow morning!

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